Jaime Luciano Balmes Quote

Even good feelings, if excessively exalted, are capable of leading us to deplorable errors.

A lazy man is a clock without a spring.

I convinced myself that to doubt everything is to lack the most precise of human reasoning, which is common sense.

The act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

Woe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!

Reason is a monarch condemned to continually struggle with the rebellious passions.

Terrible is the error when it usurps the name of science.

One should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.

He who does not tolerate intolerance is not tolerant.

Only intelligence examines itself.

Labor is a natural title to the property of the fruits of it, and legislation that does not respect that principle is inherently unjust.